
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, December 15, 1993                   TAG: 9312150128
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-8   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

FBI EXTENSIVELY PROBED RUBY LINK TO OSWALD

The FBI questioned nearly 1,000 people in the weeks following the assassination of President Kennedy but found no link between Lee Harvey Oswald and the man who silenced him, Jack Ruby.

FBI documents released Tuesday by the National Archives indicate that the possibility of a conspiracy, in which Ruby was sent to kill the accused assassin, was exhaustively explored. The archives released 28 boxes of FBI documents as part of the government's effort to open the books on the Kennedy assassination.

The documents include a 1923 evaluation of "Jacob Rubenstein" - as Ruby was known in his youth - describing him as "disobedient and quick-tempered"; Ruby's polygraph chart, indicating he was probably telling the truth when he denied a conspiracy; and extensive photographs of the strip-tease acts at Ruby's Dallas nightclub.

by CNB